PUBLIC STATEMENTS, ESSAYS, AND JOURNALISM
ABOUT THE SAN FRANCISCO TAXI INDUSTRY

By or About Christopher Fulkerson

Christopher Fulkerson SpeaksSimulcast Imagery
CF Speaks against "Peak TIme" medallions
and against SFMTA Misappropriation of funds
Meeting of
the SFMTA Board,
March 1, 2011 Photograph and Image Title by Ed Healy

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WINDS
by St.-John Perse (Alexis Leger Leger)
from Part II, Canto 6

And you can say to me: Where did you prize that out? Texts passed on in plain language! Versions given in dual aspects! ... You yourself headstone and cornerstone! ... And for your latest deceptions, I muster you to litigation in your reclining chair,
Oh Poet, Oh bilingualist, double-pronged betwixt all things, and you yourself litigation between all things litigious--man molested by god! Man speaking equivocally! ... ah! like a man deceived in a melee of wings and bristles, amidst cockfighting rough-legged buzzards!

And thou, bottommost Sun, ferocity of the Being sans eyelids, just fix your puma's eye on this crust of precious stones! ... Hazardous the enterprise where I have taken the arc of this song ... And there is still suspicious matter. But the Wind, ah! the Wind! Its power is without design and it is in love with itself.
We pass, and our shadows. Great works, page by page, are composed in silence in the lairs of the future, in the blear-eyed blind broodings. There we pick up our new writings, in pages stacked into cleaving schists....

from VENTS, written in 1945Translation Copyright 2012 by Christopher Fulkerson

Note: Of the public statements published here, these are the texts in full as they were intended to be delivered. In most cases they are spontaneously edited down by CF due to varying time limitations. In some cases, especially the more recent ones, these statements are emailed in to the relevant offices of the SFMTA, including the Board of Directors, and/or delivered in person.

AGAINST "PEAK TIME" MEDALLIONS
A brief essay giving CF's observations about how the very idea of "peak time" medallions will cause havoc in the industry, and increase
safety risk for passengers and drivers alike

CARL MACMURDO'S PRELIMINARY PROPOSAL REGARDING "PEAK TIME"
This is a document presented by a San Francisco cab driver at an MTA meeting open to the public. Click here for a download of this three-page document: I do NOT approve its suggestions, NOR DOES THEIR AUTHOR IN THE FORM PRESENTED HERE; chiefly he acknowledges that there aren't 60 "peak hours" per week. The document is presented here since it's apparently too large a file to send over the internet.

There is a blog about the SF Taxi Industry, written by a driver going by the nom de guerre of CROCKER AMAZON. I recommend this site for those who would like to follow the local cab scene. It tends to be more factually reliable than any other published source.

One entry of Crocker Amazon's blog is especially important because it gives a proper introduction to the individual who is arguably the very most uncollegial person in the entire San Francisco taxi industry. His name is Michael Spain, and you can read about how he treats his colleagues if you CLICK HERE.